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Summary: A Fun Premise Turned Into A Tedious Exercise
Review: ....amusingly mediocre at worst. There was nothing special about this book, nothing to really hold my attention. The author's physical descriptions of the boys in the band made it seem like several of the boys were skinny little nerds who would never in a million years be members of a wildly popular singing group. Also, his overuse of the word "screwed" really annoyed me. If all Mr. Zubro's books are like this, I won't be reading any more of him.
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Summary: Mildly entertaining at best.....
Review: ....amusingly mediocre at worst. There was nothing special about this book, nothing to really hold my attention. The author's physical descriptions of the boys in the band made it seem like several of the boys were skinny little nerds who would never in a million years be members of a wildly popular singing group. Also, his overuse of the word "screwed" really annoyed me. If all Mr. Zubro's books are like this, I won't be reading any more of him.
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Summary: test
Review: I picked this book up because of the inside jacket cover made it sound so good. I started reading it on a plane and after the first couple of chapters wished my window at my window seat could open so I could chuck the book out.Three quarters of the way through the book I was not just wondering who the killer was but if the author even knew. I was only hooked because I needed to end this book. The book had a wonderful premise and some really good characters, but it seemed even the author didn't know exactly why someone would murder the members of this band, so he picked some obscure reason. The ending was rushed and out of the blue. And the reason the murderer gives as to why he killed people was really lame. No one, no matter who whacked they were, would use this as an excuse or better yet no real good detective or policeman would except the reason as truth. If you think he might like the book, you are probably right if someone else wrote it.
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Summary: What was so great about this?
Review: I picked this book up because of the inside jacket cover made it sound so good. I started reading it on a plane and after the first couple of chapters wished my window at my window seat could open so I could chuck the book out. Three quarters of the way through the book I was not just wondering who the killer was but if the author even knew. I was only hooked because I needed to end this book. The book had a wonderful premise and some really good characters, but it seemed even the author didn't know exactly why someone would murder the members of this band, so he picked some obscure reason. The ending was rushed and out of the blue. And the reason the murderer gives as to why he killed people was really lame. No one, no matter who whacked they were, would use this as an excuse or better yet no real good detective or policeman would except the reason as truth. If you think he might like the book, you are probably right if someone else wrote it.
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Summary: Exciing police procedural
Review: The rock concert at the All-Chicago Sports Arena in Chicago is over and the world's most popular boy's band, Boys 4U, is celebrating the end of a six-month tour. The joyous occasion comes to a screeching halt when the body of the unofficial leader of the group Roger Stendar is found dead, a bullet in the back of his head. The autopsy shows that he had anal sex right before he died but there were no marks to indicate he struggled. Chicago police detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick are assigned to the case and when they do a search of the crime scene they find the gun with no bullets in it. Somebody shot at the stage where the group was performing and they find other evidence of sabotage. When a second band member is killed a few days later in the same manner, Turner and Fenwick realize they have to stop the killer before he cancels the entire band. DEAD EGOTISTICAL MORONS shows readers a glimpse of the sickening side of what goes on behind the scenes in the music industry. Mark Richard Zubro has written an exciting police procedural where the homicides are solved by tried and true investigating techniques. The members of the band engage the reader's sympathy because they act like mixed up scared kids who need adult supervision. The protagonist doesn't want to play daddy but at least two of the members of the band want to cast him in that role. The lead detective defines grace under pressure as he is bombarded from all sides to solve the case quickly. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Exciing police procedural
Review: The rock concert at the All-Chicago Sports Arena in Chicago is over and the world's most popular boy's band, Boys 4U, is celebrating the end of a six-month tour. The joyous occasion comes to a screeching halt when the body of the unofficial leader of the group Roger Stendar is found dead, a bullet in the back of his head. The autopsy shows that he had anal sex right before he died but there were no marks to indicate he struggled. Chicago police detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick are assigned to the case and when they do a search of the crime scene they find the gun with no bullets in it. Somebody shot at the stage where the group was performing and they find other evidence of sabotage. When a second band member is killed a few days later in the same manner, Turner and Fenwick realize they have to stop the killer before he cancels the entire band. DEAD EGOTISTICAL MORONS shows readers a glimpse of the sickening side of what goes on behind the scenes in the music industry. Mark Richard Zubro has written an exciting police procedural where the homicides are solved by tried and true investigating techniques. The members of the band engage the reader's sympathy because they act like mixed up scared kids who need adult supervision. The protagonist doesn't want to play daddy but at least two of the members of the band want to cast him in that role. The lead detective defines grace under pressure as he is bombarded from all sides to solve the case quickly. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: only dead egotistical morons will finish this book
Review: This book goes downhill from the title. Besides some amazingly convoluted, ungrammatical sentences, the actual dialogue is unbelievable, the characters are one-dimensional and the plot attenuated.
I am only happy that I didn't actually buy this book.
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Summary: test
Review: this is a test of the review system, and will be removed when the test is completed
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Summary: A Fun Premise Turned Into A Tedious Exercise
Review: Zurbo came highly recommended to me, but after reading Morons I can't imagine why. The characters are prefabricated and flat, with no appeal; the actual clues to the killer are nonexistent; and the book ends with a fizzle that somehow manages to be almost as tedious and unbelievable as it is out of nowhere... like maybe a quota of words had been met to fulfill a publisher's contract so an end was tacked on. The only thing I can imagine duller than reading this is the actual writing of it, since it doesn't even approach the couch potato equivalent of a creative exercise.
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